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Well known people born on December 20th - your in good company
Well known people born on December 20th - your in good company
Irene Dunne (December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances inCimarron (1931), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939) and I Remember Mama (1948). She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1958.[1]
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Dennis Morgan (December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. Born as Earl Stanley Morner, he used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame.
Morgan was born Earl Stanley Morner in the village of Prentice in Price County in northern Wisconsin, the son of Grace J. (née Vandusen) and Frank Edward Morner.[1] He was of Swedish descent on his father's side [2] After relocating to Los Angeles, California, Morgan starred in the war-time dramas, God Is My Co-Pilot and Captains of the Clouds, opposite Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle and Perfect Strangers, the comedy Christmas in Connecticut, withBarbara Stanwyck and Sydney Greenstreet, and the musical adventure, The Desert Song. Morgan was a top leading man at Warner Brothers in the 1940s, starring with best friend Jack Carson in many movies, several of which were "two guys" buddy pictures. His peak years were 1943 to 1949.rd Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame. |
Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938) was an American businessman, and the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires.
Firestone was born on the Columbiana, Ohio farm built by his paternal grandfather. He was the second of Benjamin and Catherine (née Flickinger) Firestone's three sons; Benjamin had a son and a daughter by his first wife. Firestone's paternal great-great-great-grandfather, Nicholas Hans Feuerstein, immigrated from Berg/Alsace/France,[1] in 1753, and settled in Pennsylvania.[2] Three of Nicholas's sons - including Harvey's great-great-grandfather, Johan Nicholas - changed their surname to "Firestone," the English translation of the family's German name "Feuerstein."[3]Firestone's birthplace was moved years later to Greenfield Village, a 90-acre (360,000 m2) historical site founded byHenry Ford. On 20 November 1895, Firestone married Idabelle Smith,[4] and had seven children. Notable great-grandchildren include:Andrew Firestone, Nick Firestone, and William Clay Ford, Jr. (the son of Henry Ford's grandson and Harvey and Idabelle's granddaughter Martha). |
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